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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 4h

That is absolutely awful. Body shaming is so damaging. So sorry you’ve been through that.

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 11h

THIS. And considering the potential huge lifelong side effects for even the licensed GLP-1s, we have an avalanche of issues coming. Along with the constant pushing of these drugs & weight loss on socials, it’s so damaging & so depressing that I feel dietculture is worse than it even was in the 90s.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 6d

Picked up rather a lot of gourds/squashes/pumpkins today!

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 8d

That looks beautiful!

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 10d

Yes!!! Am counting down the days until I will be back drinking a martini in Mr B’s!!

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 12d

Time for me to say this again…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 13d

Totally. That tag line alone speaks volumes.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 16d

Seeing Anne Burrell in the finale of Next Gen Chef is a punch in the gut.

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 17d

Goodnight Hookland. Sweet dreams!

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 19d

Enjoying Next Gen Chef but dear lord, how bad is the product placement BS? I thought Top Chef was the worse at this but apparently not.

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 20d

Yes!!! Justified is underrated. It’s a show I go back to again and again and Mags Bennett is such a good character played with superb casting.

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · 23d

a woman is giving a peace sign and the words i volunteer as tribute are next to her

ALT: a woman is giving a peace sign and the words i volunteer as tribute are next to her

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 8

How was that poor child even still in her care? It’s horrendous.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 8

I still don’t understand how he hasn’t been completely cancelled yet. He’s Teflon.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Phyllis Montana Le-Blanc is an absolute legend.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 7

It’s that time of year again. Back to school for the kids.

This ad should run during every NFL kickoff, every college football opener, every “Friday Night Lights.” Because school shootings are as American as football now.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s genuinely one of the most screwed up things I’ve ever watched. A week later I am still saying WHAT THE FUCK about so much of it.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 6

They sound amazing. Thank you!

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Have none of these people heard about batteries and how energetic can be stored?

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Sep 1

Right?!

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Aug 31

I watched it earlier today and my mind is completely blown.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Aug 31

Have just watched Unknown Number on Netflix. I have no words. This is utter insanity.

snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ok. I’ve had coffee. And it’s still beyond my processing skills. As you say, deranged.

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snoballs.bsky.social @snoballs.bsky.social · Aug 28

I genuinely don’t know how to process that at 8am before I’ve had coffee.

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